Each year, during National Retirement Security Week (October 16-22, 2016) public employees are encouraged to take a closer look at their retirement goals, then determine if their current savings strategy will help them achieve those goals.

Your anticipated retirement date may cross your mind daily as you edge closer to that magic age, but you may not have had a moment with yourself to think about what it is that you are going to do with your time.

WV Retirement Plus has 24 different options that participants can choose from. These options are divided into investment categories and asset classes. We’d like to give a brief description of each of these to better help you understand how your contributions are invested.

Regardless of age or status, each of us should set and follow a budget to help us control our finances for both the short and long term. We should also be allocating money to our savings and retirement funds.